As one of the biggest partnerships of its kind in the UK, we harness world-class research and education, cutting-edge clinical practice and a real commitment to Leeds people to help transform great ideas into life-changing initiatives. We’re driving the adoption of research and innovation, and creating inward investment to help reduce health inequalities.

To watch our short film explaining our strategy click here.

As one of the biggest partnerships of its kind in the UK, we harness world-class research and education, cutting-edge clinical practice and a real commitment to Leeds people to help transform great ideas into life-changing initiatives. We’re driving the adoption of research and innovation, and creating inward investment to help reduce health inequalities.

To watch our short film explaining our strategy click here

Innovation throughcollaboration

Innovation throughcollaboration

To watch our short film explaining our strategy, click here

Personalised medicine and health hold the key to transforming the quality of clinical outcomes for patients, their experiences of health and care, and service efficiency. We’ve established the Leeds Centre for Personalised Medicine and Health, enabling Leeds people to benefit from the latest innovations, treatments and technologies.

Personalised medicine and health hold the key to transforming the quality of clinical outcomes for patients, their experiences of health and care, and service efficiency. We’ve established the Leeds Centre for Personalised Medicine and Health, enabling Leeds people to benefit from the latest innovations, treatments and technologies.

Leeds Centre for Personalised Medicine and Health

Leeds Centre for Personalised Medicine and Health

In a pioneering approach, we’re developing ‘one Leeds workforce’ across the health and care sector. The vision is that through our new Leeds Health and Care Academy, around 57,000 staff will have the best skills founded upon the best research and evidence, to care for the people of Leeds. Ultimately it will enable them to offer Leeds people a more seamless experience of health and care services.

Click here to watch our short film about this grand new vision.

In a pioneering approach, we’re developing ‘one Leeds workforce’ across the health and care sector. The vision is that through our new Leeds Health and Care Academy, around 57,000 staff will have the best skills founded upon the best research and evidence, to care for the people of Leeds. Ultimately it will enable them to offer Leeds people a more seamless experience of health and care services.
Click here to watch our short film about this grand new vision.

Leeds Centre for Personalised Medicine and Health

Leeds Health and Care Academy

The health and care system in England is facing some of the biggest challenges in its history. People are living longer, but not necessarily healthier lives. We must innovate to find transformative, sustainable solutions.

As a collaborative partnership between three Leeds universities, our health and care organisations and the City Council, we have world-class expertise at our fingertips. We discover solutions that operate at the limits of science, uniting the full research and educational expertise of our universities with the strengths of our health and care system.

More than three million citizens across the Leeds City Region are set to benefit as senior leaders from the healthtech industry, the regional enterprise partnership, the NHS, local authorities, and five universities today announced a dynamic, new partnership to accelerate health technology innovation.

Leeds and the City Region has been chosen to host a prestigious international innovation programme, in partnership with one of the world’s most famous universities, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

A groundbreaking study has launched in Leeds to better understand how proteins in people’s blood can help identify the risk of disease and enable health professionals to decide on the right care to prevent it.

Now, more than ever, we are surrounded by help and advice about how to stay healthy and well. Most of us carry around in our pockets a world of online resources and information via our smart phones, as well as gadgets and gizmos we can use to measure and monitor things like our diet and exercise levels.

Hello, my name is Sara and I’m the proud Chief Executive of Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. We provide first class mental health and learning disabilities services to people in Leeds, across the Yorkshire region and nationally too. I’m also the ‘senior responsible officer’ for the health and care workforce in Leeds. That means I’m leading the efforts of all our health and care partners in the city to support the development of our workforce – essential to help Leeds realise its ambition to be the best city for health and wellbeing.

Working in partnership can be uniquely demanding and complicated. It requires patience, diplomacy and tenacity. So why do it and how do we assess the benefits? Suzanne Morton, Senior Development Officer, explains why she loves it and how it often harvests more than the sum of its parts.

Leeds has launched a groundbreaking new study to spot the risk of disease before it starts. But what does this mean beyond the laboratory? Diane Burke, Head of Public Health for Long-term Conditions, Leeds City Council, explains how this could benefit local people’s lives.

This month in Leeds, around 50 health and care professionals will take precious time out of their busy schedules to attend an important event. They have agreed to come together to help transform our approach to caring for people across the city who are nearing the end of their lives. The Leeds Palliative Care Network (LPCN) is leading the case for change in Leeds. Palliative care specialists Professor Mike Bennett and Dr Mike Stockton are working with them and summarise here what needs to be considered.

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